And with a sweet breath of fresh air, winter breeze blows night into a new year full of hope and promise. Behold the small, tiny moments. Remember to love {and forgive}. Seek Grace. Embrace truth. Offer a hand. Work hard {play hard}. Be bold. Live a good life. *Happy New Year* * What are your...
Happy New Year to you and yours too my lovely friend xx
So pretty! I especially love your third shot and the pretty frost covered insulator on the fence post. Hope you have a wonderful New Year!
great shots, patty. love your watermark, too! happy new year 
xoxo
Hope your day was delightfully peaceful. * sweet shot tuesday 52 weeks of happiness communal global kodachrome monday moments
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Wow, it sure looks like everyone was having a peaceful day in your house! That top image is very nice…the coloring is fantastic.
Zonked out after all the food or fun? Or both? Love the look of those photos.
Exactly, exactly what Christmas afternoon should look like. Happy New Year, friend. I always enjoy my visits here.
Patty, this is
absolutely
precious!!!
And I had to
smile, because
this same scene
played out at
my home at
various times
over the Christmas
break! Thank you
for lending your
voice to Monday
Moments in 2011.
I just love your
words and photos
and consider it a
gift to call you one
of my blogging friends.
Sending you many
blessings for a 2012
that is joy-FULL.
Hugs,
Suzanne
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Merry Christmas!
oh my! that’s the best gift you could give us! yes, yes…that KNOWING!
am incredibly amazed at your daily posts this month! you rock, girl.
merry, merry…
perhaps 2012 will be the year we can laugh and chat in person!
xoxo
It is one of the things I pray with my daughters every night! That they always feel love! <3
My dear friend – I had every intention of getting a card into the mail for you this year, but unfortunately none were written at all!
I’m sure that you and your family have had a wonderful Christmas celebration, and wishing you all a blessed, happy New Year.
xxx
True. And wonderful.
Hello there! Welcome to my space. I’m so glad you are here and hope you will stay a while… One of the things we love most about the holidays is sharing them with family and friends. Just like what I love most about blogging. Thank-you for coming here, for sharing my story. {and my pictures,...
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Love all of your gorgeous pictures and wishes, Patty! Your daughter obviously has your eye…I love her reflection in the ornament. Merry Christmas, my friend.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Love this peaceful, pretty place in the blogosphere.
breathtaking post and great photographs. love them all. thank you for joining ‘Earth Wonders’ this week. happy holidays dear xxo
your pictures and words are wonderful. glad to add you to my small but growing list of friends. merry christmas and happy new year to you and your family.
Merry Christmas to you!! And double dipping is allowed! Have a splendid weekend!
aaahhh, my daily serendipity… Thanks! Enjoy the memories you’ll make of this Christmas!
right back at ‘cha. xoxo
this is just the way I feel at blogging ~ blessings of the season to you my friend!
Merry Christmas, Sweet Pattycake!!
Another beautiful Christmas tree and post! Thanks so much for sharing…Merry Christmas, sweetie!
xoxo
Joy
beautiful ornaments and decoration!!! love them!!! happy holidays!!!
We had two Christmas trees when I was growing up… A big fat live tree that we cut fresh, that pulled all the frames from the walls and left a trail of needles as we drug it through the house to the living room. Both it’s top and bottom were cut and trimmed until we...
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thank you so much for sharing your Xmas with us. love all the photos and your tree is so dreamy happy holidays. xxo
Ooh. I love your memories.
I just have to say my husband would have loved your Dad’s Christmas tree decorating. Every year he asks can we put the BIG colorful lights and silver tinsel on the tree. Every year we tell him “No” very politely. Now I’m wondering if we should just let him go for it. Nah.
We had the fake tree with three wooden poles that the limbs fit into. Color coded, three prong limbs on the bottom, two prong in the middle and one prong on the top with the little bands of greenery to hide the pole. (Why didn’t they make the poles green to begin with?) I have a few of the ornaments that hung on the tree. Truly vintage now.
happy holidays to you too
oh, patty…thank you for sharing your childhood memories! xoxo
ps–i LOVEEEEEEE your snow-flocked tree in that last shot. and the lights in the background of your 3rd shot are magical.
Wow! We are holdouts from the past! We get the real tree a couple of weeks before Christmas and take it down a week after. We do white lights, but we have a hodge podge of stuff on there…LOTS of kids’ homemade ornaments with their preschool pictures on them next to a tissue paper homemade butterfly, next to Lenox and handblown glass, and then the odd pretty bow from a a package and a lot of birds of various materials. Growing up we had real trees, some of them cedars (a trend for awhile), TONS of tinsel, sometimes a white flocked tree, then a fake for many years, then a HUGE 17 footer that was real. My mom would have the whole youth group over to decorate and string popcorn and cranberries. We keep it pretty simple around here, but I like to have the lights on and Christmas music going as I putter around.
Once again breaktaking pictures of your beautiful home… and words that brought tears to my eyes. Traditions are what this season is all about, and family and friends and food but most of all welcoming a Savior who sacrified so much so that we might enjoy these traditions. Have a blessed Christmas Patty and thanks for all you do to help us to stop and reflect…
Beautiful!! It is funny what we remember…and as we grew up our traditions changed. At first, when all the siblings were young(er) we sat and sang Christmas carols with the tree lit the night of Christmas Eve. Then, as we got older we stopped doing that. In our teenage years, I mostly remember hi-jinx, trying to sneak peeks at gifts, switching name tags on gifts…silly stuff like that. Hopefully once our son gets older we will start some new traditions, as we don’t have anything in place right now.
Your photos are absolutely breathtaking! Your memories are so sweet – brought tears to my eyes! Merry Christmas, Patty!
xoxo
Joy
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